dreary
A dreary person or thingA dreary person or thing.
Meaning
1 senses(rare)A dreary person or thing.
In the glow of this project Steele manages to forget altogether the parade of donnish and scholastic drearies, the barricades of schoolbooks, texts, examinations with which he has dealt so faithfully.
Examples
17 sentencesIt's a dreary place.
deEs ist ein trostloser Ort. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The weather is quite dreary today.
Today it again is quite dreary.
I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.
deIch muss morgen zu einer weiteren öden Sitzung gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
What makes life dreary is the want of motivation.
Origin
From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-West Germanic *dreFrom Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-West Germanic *dreuʀag, from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trurich (“sad, dreary”), West Frisian treurich (“sad, dreary”), Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrugr, dreyrigr (“bloody, gory”), whence Icelandic dreyrugur (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
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